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Y Kant Ozma Post posted:I don't know but when I find out who did this to him I'm going to hunt them down and give them a noogie that's going to hurt like hell. It was Obama. He wants all the taxes and is angry at Tony for encouraging tax circumvention.
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AmazonTony posted:I'm working on getting in touch with Rhode Island (not a joke). Even if it isn't a joke, it just seems kind of funny to contact a state to discount a video game. 
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Dec 19, 2012 00:09
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Thanks for this informative thread and detailed OP! Do you have any plans for more Heart of the Swarm beta key giveaways? I plan on it, just waiting to get more of them.
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AmazonTony posted:I plan on it, just waiting to get more of them. My hero!
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DarkstarIV posted:
My back end system shows it is good through 1/1. That being said I hate this system and it lies to me sometimes, but you SHOULD be ok through 1/1.
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Dec 19, 2012 00:12
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I was told it was het. You didn't hear that from me though.
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Turn that frown upside down Tony. By the way a couple of titles were pulled from the steam store a few months back, namely Everyday Genius and the Ghostbusters game. Do you have any idea if they're going to be removed from Amazon soon? AmazonTony posted:I'm working on getting in touch with Rhode Island (not a joke). This would be pretty drat special if you somehow made it happen  .
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Dec 19, 2012 00:13
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Oh poo poo, Persona 4 Arena is on sale? Hurrah for marketing threads 
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Kharmakazy posted:Now IANAL, but I'm pretty sure the legal responsibility for making sure sales tax is paid is on the seller and not the buyer, since the seller is the one actually turning in the tax money to the government... Depends on your locality. In many areas, anything you buy where you aren't explicitly charged a sales tax, you as a customer are actually supposed to report it to be billed a use tax by your state.
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Purchased Syndicate and finished it today (7 hours or so), looking forward to that Kingdoms of Amalur sale!
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AmazonTony posted:No worries, not worried. Just surprised that someone would go through all the expense and trouble of making a semi-public statement without actually taking credit for it... I'm so glad to hear this. It always bums me out when i see KoA get a really nice price on Amazon (the very tempting 12 deal with all the dlcs) or Gamefly, while the Steam version is still stuck at $60 with not a single sale beyond a brief discount when the first dlc was released.
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I like how Tony's new title serves to make his posts stand out more in the thread and makes them easier to find.
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AmazonTony posted:I'm working on getting in touch with Rhode Island (not a joke). This is awesome. You are awesome. I would be so psyched if this could happen.
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Kharmakazy posted:Now IANAL, but I'm pretty sure the legal responsibility for making sure sales tax is paid is on the seller and not the buyer, since the seller is the one actually turning in the tax money to the government... He was trying to simplify. Mail-order retailers are only required to pay sales tax in states where they have physical nexus, meaning that they have some sort of substantial physical presence in the state. For states where Amazon doesn't have physical nexus, they have no responsibility to collect sales tax whatsoever. These states try to capture what would have been the sales tax on the order by passing a Use Tax, which means that if you are a resident of the state and you purchase items from a sales-tax-exempt seller like Amazon, you as the resident are responsible for collecting and submitting your Use Tax to your state government. Of course, basically no one knows about their use tax liability, and the state doesn't know what, if anything, you've bought from exempt retailers out-of-state, so everyone ignores the use tax and states lose out on tax revenue they should have been paid.
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Now I know it's already expired, but do you know if The Secret World will be on sale again in the near future? I'd like to give it to some friends in the holiday spirit now that I've played it and love it.
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ExtrudeAlongCurve posted:
Thanks I'm not holding out much hope but I have a weekly reminder to dedicate an hour to making phone calls and sending emails. Protocol7 posted:Now I know it's already expired, but do you know if The Secret World will be on sale again in the near future? I'd like to give it to some friends in the holiday spirit now that I've played it and love it. I'm working on it. Likely January though.
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thefncrow posted:He was trying to simplify. Mail-order retailers are only required to pay sales tax in states where they have physical nexus, meaning that they have some sort of substantial physical presence in the state. For states where Amazon doesn't have physical nexus, they have no responsibility to collect sales tax whatsoever. These states try to capture what would have been the sales tax on the order by passing a Use Tax, which means that if you are a resident of the state and you purchase items from a sales-tax-exempt seller like Amazon, you as the resident are responsible for collecting and submitting your Use Tax to your state government. If that is the case, then that is completely unenforceable and they would have known it when they made it law. Laws that the government has no intention of enforcing are kind of moot. But I think it may be time to stop talking about sales tax...
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Dec 19, 2012 00:29
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Love the new Avatar, Tony.
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Oh someone beat me to the punch. Well keep up the good work Tony. Remember we're always here for you. #TonyDefenseForce Seriously though, thanks for the great thread and awesome deals! Quite pleased with my Heart of the Swarm key.
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Drunk Tomato posted:Love the new Avatar, Tony. Boycott Amazon until he brings back the Robert Webb avatar.
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Dec 19, 2012 00:41
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I missed the other avatar, what'd it say? Hey Tony, do you have any pull over physical copies of games as well or do you strictly deal with just digital games?
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Dec 19, 2012 00:53
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drat I missed Might and Magic Clash of Heroes for 2.50. Any chance it comes back?
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I have a question; I have $59 in Amazon credit, which is awesome but here is my problem, it's all broken up into different digital video games that I don't want. The credit is useless to me in its current form. I was wondering if it is possible to convert that credit into general credit that can be used anywhere on the video game section of Amazon.com? It would really make my day if this were possible.
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Dec 19, 2012 00:58
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I said come in! posted:I have a question; I have $59 in Amazon credit, which is awesome but here is my problem, it's all broken up into different digital video games that I don't want. The credit is useless to me in its current form. I was wondering if it is possible to convert that credit into general credit that can be used anywhere on the video game section of Amazon.com? It would really make my day if this were possible. It's not really general credit and it's given away like that mostly because they know you don't want it. Actually it's because the companies pushing those games want people to give them a shot to try to suck in some money but I like the way I put it first. Some have had luck trying to put a normal purchase through then asking support about why the credit isn't applying, but mostly you're going to be told that it's not a general credit and to deal with it. Tony's mentioned that he'd like to see the credit widget improved so it will break down what you actually have credits for.
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Dec 19, 2012 01:07
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AmazonTony posted:I'm working on getting in touch with Rhode Island (not a joke). Oh man, this would be the BEST thing. 
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Dec 19, 2012 01:20
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The Secret World was only on sale for a few days, it seems so short considering the rest of the sale. Is that it for that game or is there any word on a second sale for it? I really wanna check that game out, but not for more than 15.
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SSJ Reeko posted:The Secret World was only on sale for a few days, it seems so short considering the rest of the sale. Is that it for that game or is there any word on a second sale for it? I really wanna check that game out, but not for more than 15. Seconding this, I'm in the same boat.
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I said come in! posted:I have a question; I have $59 in Amazon credit, which is awesome but here is my problem, it's all broken up into different digital video games that I don't want. The credit is useless to me in its current form. I was wondering if it is possible to convert that credit into general credit that can be used anywhere on the video game section of Amazon.com? It would really make my day if this were possible. I have a bunch of these credits too, but to me it seems like they are basically just like a coupon for X. If you don't want X, the coupon has no value.
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I said come in! posted:I have a question; I have $59 in Amazon credit, which is awesome but here is my problem, it's all broken up into different digital video games that I don't want. The credit is useless to me in its current form. I was wondering if it is possible to convert that credit into general credit that can be used anywhere on the video game section of Amazon.com? It would really make my day if this were possible. What's even more annoying about this is occasionally it'll get added into the sections other than Video Game/Software Downloads. I'm currently sitting on $23 in MP3 credit, $24 in Instant Video credit, and a whopping $268 in Video Game and Software downloads credit. My best guess is I actually have about $4 in each of the first two and 0 in the last category.
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Xenoborg posted:I have a bunch of these credits too, but to me it seems like they are basically just like a coupon for X. If you don't want X, the coupon has no value.
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Hey there, Trying to answer multiple questions at once here: 1. Clash of Heroes and The Secret World aren't planned again for December. The Secret World is in the works for January, I'll look into Clash of Heroes as well. 2. We just confirmed the Darksiders II deal: 12/20-12/21: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00APOVDDY - $13.19
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I said come in! posted:I have a question; I have $59 in Amazon credit, which is awesome but here is my problem, it's all broken up into different digital video games that I don't want. The credit is useless to me in its current form. I was wondering if it is possible to convert that credit into general credit that can be used anywhere on the video game section of Amazon.com? It would really make my day if this were possible. It sucks that Amazon can't tell you what the credits are for, but if they did this, I would get ~$30 in general credit from buying that last $10 Serious Sam bundle. The whole reason they can afford to give you $30 in credit on purchases like that is because it's for things 99% of people will never buy. Whining about that credit not applying to all games is a pretty fatwallet-ish thing to do.
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wa27 posted:It sucks that Amazon can't tell you what the credits are for, but if they did this, I would get ~$30 in general credit from buying that last $10 Serious Sam bundle. The whole reason they can afford to give you $30 in credit on purchases like that is because it's for things 99% of people will never buy. Whining about that credit not applying to all games is a pretty fatwallet-ish thing to do. Two points here: 1. We're actively working on this widget, but I agree, the display is not optimal. 2. Regarding the coupon, the percentage of people who used it last year was MUCH higher than the 1% you're suggesting above.
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AmazonTony posted:Regarding the coupon, the percentage of people who used it last year was MUCH higher than the 1% you're suggesting above. The $5 on "editors choice" games, sure. But I imagine most of people's large credit balances is $20 for things like this. At least mine is right now. I'm certainly not going to ask Amazon to change that into $20 of regular credit.
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wa27 posted:The $5 on "editors choice" games, sure. But I imagine most of people's large credit balances is $20 for things like this. At least mine is right now. I'm certainly not going to ask Amazon to change that into $20 of regular credit. Ah got it, my bad I read your post incorrectly. You are correct, while not 1%, the redemption on the F2P coupons is significantly lower than the $5 Jan coupon.
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Yeah, I think the credit for Editor's Choice games is good and nobody is complaining about that. But the credits for Generic Social Advergame come across as pretty much spam.
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Dec 19, 2012 02:32
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Tony, you seem to be missing out the DLC deals, could you add them? 
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supercow posted:drat I missed Might and Magic Clash of Heroes for 2.50. Any chance it comes back? Oh wow, I thought that was good for the whole week. I wanted to get another copy to gift. 
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I've got 50 more SC2 HOTS beta keys to give out. Since it looks like lurkers snagged the last batch. Any suggestions on how to get you all these codes? PM? Smoke Signal? I can post my cell phone number so you can all call me and I can read you each code character by character? Let me know! Also, my dog is adorable and we're giving away games this week: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152342678695261&set=a.10151362562415261.817101.137830960260&type=1&theater He's on the right, his name is Paddington.
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Just give me one and throw the 49 others out your window while driving to work tomorrow.
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AmazonTony posted:I've got 50 more SC2 HOTS beta keys to give out. Since it looks like lurkers snagged the last batch. Private Game Servers thread?
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